NATIVE SCHOOL

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23830, 4 December 1940, Page 6

NATIVE SCHOOL

MODERN FACILITIES WHAKAREWAREWA BUILDING ERECTION AT COST OF £16,000 [HY TELEGRAPH —OWN CO Kit KSI'OND KN'L'] KOTO I! I* A, Tuesday Scheduled to he opened by the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. P. Eraser, during February, the new primary native "school at Whakarewarewa is now well on the way to completion. When it. is finished the Rotorua district will be well equipped with educational facilities, all of which have been improved within the last two years. In February hist, year the new technical block at the Rotorua High School, costing €IO.OOO. was completed, and this was followed in August of the same year by the opening of a new primary school which was erected at: a cost of £14.000, Most expensive of the three buildings, the Whakarewarewa native school, will cost £IO.OOO. owing to extra equipment now specified by the Government in the erection of large native schools. In addition to the main block of six open-air classrooms, there will be a technical block and a model cottage, while apart from the rest of the school buildings, will be the headmaster's residence. The. staff at Whakarewarewa will have an opportunity of teaching Maori girls modern home management. For this purpose a model cottage has been 11u j It and in it pupils will be allowed to "keep house" themselves.